Relationship Status, Health, and Health Behavior: An Examination of Cohabiters and Commuters

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dc.contributorVirginia Techen
dc.contributor.authorFuller, T. D.en
dc.date.accessed2014-02-17en
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-05T13:38:18Zen
dc.date.available2014-03-05T13:38:18Zen
dc.date.issued2010en
dc.description.abstractA large amount of literature on relationship status, health, and health behavior indicates that marriage conveys health benefits. This literature, however, devotes relatively little attention to two theoretically interesting groups: unmarried cohabiters and married people who do not live with their spouse ("commuters"). The author hypothesizes that the health and health behaviors of these two groups will be intermediate between those of married people and unattached single individuals. Selective support is found for the hypothesis that the health behaviors of commuters are intermediate between those of married people and single people, but no support is found for the hypothesis that the health status of commuters is intermediate between that of married people and single people. Contrary to expectation, cohabiting persons tend to have poorer health status and health behavior than both their married and single counterparts. Also, while much previous research indicates that the health benefits of marriage are greater for men than women, the author finds that lacking a live-in partner (i.e., commuting or being single) appears to be more detrimental for women than men.en
dc.identifier.citationFuller, T. D. (2010). Relationship Status, Health, and Health Behavior: An Examination of Cohabiters and Commuters. Sociological Perspectives, 53(2), 221-246. doi: 10.1525/sop.2010.53.2.221en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1525/sop.2010.53.2.221en
dc.identifier.issn0731-1214en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/25822en
dc.identifier.urlhttp://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/sop.2010.53.2.221en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherUniversity of California Pressen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectcohabitationen
dc.subjectcommuter marriageen
dc.subjecthealthen
dc.subjecthealth statusen
dc.subjectmarital statusen
dc.subjectrelationship statusen
dc.subjectsocial supporten
dc.subjectmental-healthen
dc.subjectsleep durationen
dc.subjectmarital-statusen
dc.subjectrelationship qualityen
dc.subjectmarriageen
dc.subjectmortalityen
dc.subjectGenderen
dc.subjectcohabitationen
dc.subjectindividualsen
dc.titleRelationship Status, Health, and Health Behavior: An Examination of Cohabiters and Commutersen
dc.title.serialSociological Perspectivesen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden

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